1. UNIONIST OPPOSITION TO HOME RULE
WHO?
WHERE?
WHY?
WHAT?
WHEN?
END RESULT?

2. WHO and WHERE? MOSTLY PROTESTANT FELT SECURE BEING PART OF UK
LEADERS – CARSON AND CRAIG
LIVED MOSTLY IN NORTH EAST
BIG BUSINESS MOSTLY UNIONIST
SAW EMPIRE AS IMPORTANT
HAD POWERFUL ALLIES IN BRITAIN**

6. Andrew Bonar Law

7. The House of Lords

9. Kipling

10. WHY? ECONOMIC REASON CRUCIAL SAW BRITISH EMPIRE AS CRUCIAL
RAW MATERIALS
BANKS FOR CREDIT
MARKETS FOR PRODUCTS

11. Ship building

13. Linen mills

15. RELIGIOUS REASON FEARED DISCRIMINATION BY ROMAN CATHOLICS
SLOGAN WAS “HOME RULE IS ROME RULE”
FELT MORE SECURE AS PART OF UK

17. POLITICAL REASON
FELT IRISH INCAPABLE OF RULING THEMSELVES
DUBLIN RULE = TOTAL POLITICAL CHAOS

18. WHY did people in Britain support the Unionists
SECURITY FEAR
POLITICAL REASON
ECONOMIC TIES
RELIGIOUS SYMPATHIES

19. Why Unionists were worried in 1912
Liberal government in power
Powerful Home Rule party – 80+ MP’s
Liberals needed support of HR Party
Parliament Act had been passed
Made Home Rule inevitable
Redmond delighted – Carson worried 19

20. How did Unionists resist Home Rule
Organised speeches and rallies
Got support from Conservatives
Used newspapers, posters, cartoons
Organised the Ulster Covenant
Created UVF – imported GUNS
Real danger of CIVIL WAR
Put forward idea of PARTITION 20

23. POSTCARD EXAMPLE

33. Outbreak of WWI 2 private armies in Ireland in 1914
Special conference called by King
War erupted in Summer 1914
Redmond pledged Irish support
Carson pledged Unionist support
Carson and Craig joined War cabinet
Home Rule put on hold until end war 33